KIPLINGS IN THE 1940 US CENSUS This note identifies all the Kiplings in this census (or other contemporary sources), relating them as far as possible back to their origins - and in some cases tracing their descendants. It proceeds state-by-state in alphabetical order. The absence of a state indicate that no Kiplings were recorded in that state in 1940 (or any record was not transcribed and indexed as such). Some spelling/transcription errors have been allowed for. However, most Keplings or Keplins are not originally Kiplings (rather they are of Eastern European ancestry) although some Kiplings became Keplins in North Dakota (q.v.) California Los Angeles The 1937 LA City Directory shows several Kiplings in the city (and an Hotel Kipling!) Alice Kipling (74) was the widow of Robert Kipling who had been a machinist in Philadelphia and later (1920) in Newark, NJ. She had come to the USA from England in the early 1880s and he around 1880. She died in 1941 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Robert was born in Bradford in Yorkshire, the son of William Kipling of the Staindrop Kiplings. Alice had been born Alice Tansey, also in Bradford, Yorkshire, daughter of mill mechanic John Tansey. It is not known when or where Robert died, but Alice appears to have been living alone in LA by 1924 (according to the electoral register) and had been joined by sons Albert, Edward and Robert by 1928. Albert was a machinist like his late father. In 1930, he had been lodging next door to younger brother Edward He later married his landlady, Lela Childers, although what happened to his wife German-origin wife Augusta back in Pennsylvania is not clear. Lela died in 1963 and Albert in 1967, both in LA. There is no record of children of either marriage.
Edward was a car parts salesman and his wife, Lois was an artist. They had sons Edward Rudyard and Ronald Clark. Edward died in 1972 and Lois in 1999. Both are buried at Forest Lawn. Edward Rudyard was known to be living in Atlanta in 1996 and Ronald Clark died near Seattle in 2011. Ronald Clark KIPLING Sept 5, 1936 ~ June 25, 2011 Ron Kipling died Saturday 6/25/11, while what he loved: riding his motorcycle. The children of Ron Kipling, (Ron, Cindy & Debbie) your presence at the Memorial Service, honoring the life of our Dad, Ron Kipling, a man of talents. Please come, and share a memory, and say a final farewell, to a unique and much man. Memorial Service: Date: Saturday July 9th Time: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm At: American Hall-15 25405 97th Place South Kent, WA. 98031 doing request many loved Legion Ron was amongst other things a bit part actor in a Twilight Zone episode in 1961. Quite intriguingly, both he and his brother were also defendants in a 2009 law case: Plaintiffs: Defendants: United States of America and California Department of Toxic Substances Control Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp., Arvinmeritor, Inc, Edward R. Kipling, Ronald C. Kipling et al Third brother Robert was an auto mechanic and died in 1977 in LA. Wife Valetha (nee Latimer) died in 1984. They also appear to have left no children. Freelance actor Richard Kipling was living with his (second) wife Ida Marie in Los Angeles. He was divorced from his first wife Mathilda. Richard travelled to the UK in the Orca in 1924, when he was a minor movie producer. In his passport application of the same year he states that he was born in Chicago in 1880 and that his father Carl B Kipling was born in Norway (and had died in 1898). Carl probably arrived in the US in 1866 aboard the Bremen. I can t find a Dalwender in Norway (or Germany) although there is a village Dalsgrenda in rural Norway. However, it is nevertheless very interesting to find an immigrant from continental Europe with the name Kipling, presumably his own. There is no other known connection of Kiplings with Norway, although there is a Kipling farm in Sweden. Richard s early life is a bit of a mystery and the earliest mention I can find is his January 1908 opening as the new leading vaudeville man at Fischers Theatre.
Richard subsequently starred in a number of movies initially under the name Edward Kipling and later under his own name. Edward Kipling as Smee in Richard Kipling in Sucker List (1941) Peter Pan (1924) Richard died in 1965 and is buried at Forest Lawns, Glendale. As far as is known, he left no children. The Kipling Hotel is still there today! Other places 69-year old Benjamin Charles Kipling was living in Kern county near Bakersfield. No occupation was shown, although the Bakersfield City directory of 1926 lists him as a building contractor. He was the son of Charles and Hannah Kipling. Charles Kipling was a bootmaker of Kendal in Westmorland, although had been born in London, of the Gilling Kipling family. By 1891, Benjamin was an architect s assistant at Ulverston in Lancashire. Early the following year he married Mary Peters Thornber, also of Kendal. They emigrated to America in March that
year, with Mary s brothers Edward and James Thornber. They left Liverpool for Portland, Maine, on the Allan Lines SS Parisian. 1900 found the Kiplings in Chinook, Montana, Benjamin trading as a shoemaker. With them daughter Gladys, born in Montana in 1893, and Eddie Thornber, Mary s younger brother. 1910 found Benjamin, now a carpenter, and Gladys in Kern. Mary had died earlier that year. By 1920 Benjamin had married Canadian Frances Coates (younger than daughter Gladys). The marriage did not last as by 1930 he was divorced and Frances was living back with her father (in Kern). She had remarried by 1940. Benjamin died in 1947 and was buried beside his first wife. Gladys Parkes) died in Kern County in 1977. Daughter (later In Coalinga, Fresno, lived Carlton M S Kipling and his wife Eva. Carlton was an oil pumper who had been living is Seattle in 1935. In 1930, they were in Tacoma, Washington State with daughter Ethelwyn and son Oliver, both of whom had been born in Canada. Carlton was then a furnisher polish manufacturer. In 1920, he was also in Tacoma, married to Caroline, with additional daughter Dorothy. He was a deposit vault clerk. Caroline (nee Oliver) died in 1922. It has not been possible to find Carlton in earlier censuses, although he reports being born in New York in 1879.
Fresno Bee Republican 8 July 1945 Carlton died back in Seattle in 1962 Fresno Bee Republican 19 Jan 1945 Son Oliver G Kipling was a sheet-metal apprentice in Seattle in 1940. He was married to Leona, with sons Oliver (4), Rudyard (2) and Donovan (1 mo). He died in 1987 in Snohomish. Ethelwyn married Clifford Samuelson in 1932 at the Russian Orthodox church in Seattle. --------------- In 1930 in Gardena, Los Angeles lived Horace Kipling, an oil field welder, and his wife Alice. Horace had arrived in the USA in 1907. Horace Thomas Kipling had been born in Shoreditch, London in 1881, son of shoemaker William Ellis Kipling and his wife Ellen (nee Hawkins). William was the son of Robert Kipling of Gilling. Both his mother and his father died before he was three and he was placed in Muller s Orphanage No 1 in Bristol. 1 His sister Gertrude was placed in an orphanage in Hampstead, London. Horace trained as a Blacksmith in South Wales, joined the British Army in 1899, served for a time in South Africa during the Boer War and was discharged on medical grounds at Aldershot in 1901. In 1910, he was a labourer in Kern, CA, working on the construction of the LA aqueduct. 1 George Muller was a devout Christian who founded five orphanages in Bristol between 1845 and 1870, accommodating around 2000 children from all around the country.
At the time of the 1917-18 draft, he was a blacksmith working on the Santa Fe railroad at Fresno. He named his sister Gertrude, in London, as his next of kin. Horace is missing from the 1920 and 1940 US census and died in Riverside, CA, in 1954. Illinois In the mining region around 200 miles SW of Chicago, we have many descendants of the three coal-mining Kipling brothers of the Brough group (see Ohio below). McDonough County In Colchester: Albert (74, son of William) and Eva, Frank (69, son of Thomas) and Belle, Thomas (64, son of Thomas), Joshua (62, son of Thomas) and Clarina, Clarence (61, a coal miner, son of Thomas), Bessie and son Ray, Fred (48, garage mechanic, son of Albert), Unice and son Dee (12) Cecil (41, truck driver, son of Albert) and sons Junior (18) and Lynne (1), Dewey (41, road construction worker, son of Frank) and Della In Macomb, Benjamin (51, Chevrolet salesman, son of Thomas), Margaret and son H Read (10). In Bushnell, Delmar (34, hatchery worker, son of Frank), Wilma and son Bobby W (9). In Blandinsville, Lester (24, hatchery proprietor, son of Frank), Vanita and son Ronny (1). Neighbouring counties In Galesburg, Knox, is Ivan (31, dairyman at dairy plant, son of Frank) and Mary. Also, Edgar (45, railroad brakeman, son of Albert), Aimee and their three daughters. In Dallas City, Henderson is Homer (43, hatchery owner, son of Frank), Gail and Homer Jnr (14). In Carthage, Hancock, is Alfred (33, salesman, son of Albert) and Juanita.
In Cuba, Fulton, is Agnes, widow of Septimus (son of Thomas) and son Earl (25, labourer). In Canton, Fulton, is Guy (33, Caterpillar gear cutter, son of Septimus) Thelma ( 1957 Canton City Directory In Naperville, DuPage, is Herman (38, furniture factory worker, son of John H who was a son of William), Mabel and son Jack (2) In Groveland, Tazewell, is Harold (38, railroad special agent, son of John H), Dolly and two daughters. Finally, in Peoria is George (57, drill operator at a tractor factory), Caroline and son George H (22). George arrived in the US in 1906 and originally worked as a coal miner in Witt, Montgomery County. He had been coal miner in Derbyshire, having been born in Eckington in 1882. He was from the Notts family group, the son of Harry Kipling of Welham, Notts. George, Caroline and daughter Miriam left Liverpool aboard the Carmania in June 1906 bound for New York. Son George H died in Pinellas County, Florida in 1989. Iowa In Davenport, Scott is Septimus (30, odd job man, son of Septimus (d 1935) who was a son of Thomas), Twilla and son Jimmy (9), of the family from McDonough County, Illinois (see above). Indiana Mary Elizabeth Kipling (71), spinster, was living in Rosedale, apparently at the home of a niece or nephew. She had been born in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, one of the children of Robert and Rhoda Kipling of the Bolam Kipling family (see below). She died back in Muhlenberg in 1952.
Ethel Kipling (30), a divorced telephone operator, was living at Elkhart with her parents Ella and Andrew Tharios [?], the latter from Greece. I have not been able to find anything more about her. Kansas In Emporia was Chester Kipling, younger son (b1916) of Bernhard and Clara Kipling of Missouri (see below). He was also clothing salesman. His mother later came to live with him and wife Evelyn. Emporia City Directory 1958 He died in Kansas in 2000. Kentucky Living by highway 176 in Muhlenberg county was farmer Robert E Kipling snr. (1894) with wife Pearl and children Howard (1917), Lena (1921), Evelyn (1927), Robert E jnr. (1928), Frances (1931) and Earl (1934). Next door was Robert s mother, Cynthia Kipling, and his brother Charles (1899) and Charles daughter Alice (1924). Cynthia was the widow of George Kipling (b 1864, d 1937) who was one of the sons of Robert Kipling. Robert Kipling was born in Denton in the parish of Gainford in Durham in 1828, the son of Henry Kipling, a farm worker and Dorothy Rivers. The 1851 census shows him living with his parents in Shildon, a mining district in Durham, working as a joiner. Henry had been born in Bolam, Durham in 1807, the 3 rd child of Robert Kipling (also a farm worker) and Ann (Nancy) Orton who married in 1799 (Ann was then a widow). Robert sen. was born around 1771 in the neighbouring parish of Staindrop. Robert jun. married widow Rhoda Pearson (nee Siddle) in Liverpool in May 1855, very shortly before they departed on the Irene for New York.
Priscilla and Eveline (not Albania!) had been born in Durham in 1852 and 1854 respectively, presumably either out of wedlock or to another mother. Peggy is likely to be Robert s stepmother Margaret (to who Henry was married by the time of the 1841 census). Ann Toll, who accompanied them, also witnessed the wedding, was the wife of Durham coal miner Francis ( Frank ) Toll who had gone to the US the previous year and who had presumably found a job in Muhlenberg. At that time, an iron foundry was being established in Airdrie, Muhlenberg, and a patternmaker like Robert would have found employment there 2. Louisiana A prisoner at the House of Detention in New Orleans was Jack Kipling (26). In 1935 he had been living in Great Falls, Montana. Jack (this time 22) was also listed at the Seaman s Church Institute in Decatur Street as a steelworker in the construction industry, born in Montana but in 1935 resident in Kansas City, Missouri. They are almost certainly the same person, the Institute being record on 8th April and the prison not until the 29 th. Was Jack related to the Kiplings of Browning? 2 Patternmakers made wood models around which a mould could be formed and molten iron poured in once the model was removed.
Massachusetts Willie (76) and Annie Elizabeth (59) Kipling were living in Chicopee City, near Springfield. Willie had been born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1864 and came to the US in 1889. Retired by 1940, Willie had kept a gas station in 1930 and before that was a fireman in a mill and a carpenter. Annie (nee Riley) was his second wife, for whom he went back to Bradford to marry in 1921. In the 1896 Springfield City directory, we see Willie s mother Ellen and brothers Lionel and Thomas: Willie was the son of Lionel and Ellen Kipling. Lionel, a forgeman, had been born in Calverley near Leed Yorkshire in 1838, son in turn of yet another Lionel, woolcomber, who came from Barnard Castle, Durham. Lionel is of the Staindrop Kipling family. Emigration appears to have been provoked by the death of Lionel the forgeman in 1884, with widow Ellen, three daughters and three sons all coming to the US together. Willie had a son Lionel by his first marriage (to Elizabeth Ann Hay ), who was born in Bradford just before they left for the US in 1889. As far as I can tell, Lionel was their only surviving child. Lionel jnr. and his German-born wife Caroline are shown in the 1940 census at Norwoord. Mass, where he is an etch gilder. He died in Warren, NH in 1967, as far as I can tell without issue. Willie s sister Charlotte and brother Thomas are also recorded in the 1940 census at Chicopee. Both are single. Brother Lionel also appears to have died without issue. --------------- In Somerville, we find widow Lena Kipling. She was the wife of William M Kipling who arrived in the US in 1899 from England, a painter and decorator. They had married around 1916. I have not yet been able to identify William s origins. 1926 Somerville City Directory
--------------- Percy and Hannah Kipling were living in Methuen. Percy Kipling was born in Bradford in 1902, son of gas stoker and later fish fryer William Kipling and his wife Agnes (nee Stout). He married Hannah Smith in Bradford in 1921 and emigrated to the US in 1923. 1932 Methuen Directory Percy died in Honolulu in 1975, leaving two daughters Margaret and Marion. Percy was of the Notts Kiplings Michigan In Ishpeming, we find Joseph and Hannah Kipling and their adult sons, (Joseph) Thomas, (Burton) Wesley and William, each with their own families. Joseph is a retired cemetery sexton and before that an iron worker. He is of the Notts Kiplings, having been born in Egmanton in Nottinghamshire, but moved at a young age to Dalton in Cumbria, where he became an iron worker. He emigrated to the US in 1892, living first in Iron County, Wisconsin but by 1910 was in Ishpeming, MI. Their descendants still live in Ishpeming today. Mississippi In Union, there is an Alfred E Kipling with an unnamed wife and a young daughter Ollie. Alfred claims to have been born in Mississippi but there are no traces. Possibly a mistranscription? A similar comment applies to black 9-year old Robert Lee Kipling in Sunflower. Missouri In Kansas City was widow Clara Kipling (56). She had married Bernhard Kipling in 1913 but was later divorced. Millinery salesman Bernhard died in 1930 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is buried there in the Jewish Riverside cemetery.
Bernhard had emigrated from Russia, arriving in New York in 1891. In the 1930 census he was a patient in the Michigan Asylum for the Insane (Kalamazoo State Hospital). Clara later moved to Kansas to live with younger son Chester (see above)> In St Joseph was clothing salesman, Marvin Kipling (b1913), the elder son of Clara and Bernhard Kipling. At the time of his death in 2000, his sons Richard and Ronald were both living in Southern California. In St Louis was Howard D Kipling, Billing department manager, and his wife Bernice. Howard was born in Colchester, Illinois in 1905, son of Joshua Kipling and so of the Brough Kiplings. Howard died in 1993 and Bernice in 2013. Kipling, Bernice Beverly (nee McCracken), at the age of 104, on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Beloved wife of the late Howard Dennis Kipling; loving mother of Nancy Kipling Greenman (Thomas); dear sister and predeceased in death of 12; aunt, great-aunt and friend of many. Mrs. Kipling was born in the Ozarks of Missouri, raised in Butte, Montana and returned to Missouri in the late twenties Also in Kansas City is African-American widow Lillie Kipling, a laundress born in Louisiana in 1895. I can find no other records for her. Montana In Browning was timekeeper William P Kipling (31), a Native American born in Canada, with his wife Anna (nee Billedeaux; married in 1932 at Browning) and three daughters Doris (7), Patricia (4) and Carol Ann (2). The 1935 Indian Roll states that William was of the Cree tribe and Anna of the Blackfeet. William P also had children Merlin Melvin (1940), Dean William (1951) and four other daughters. William was born in 1908 in Fort Macleod, Foothills, Alberta and died in Browning in 1976. Anna died in Browning in 1995. William s father, also William, was born in 1874 in Fort Pitt, Northwest Territory, and died in 1963 in Calgary. WIlliam sen was the son of George Kipling (b 1852) and Mary Lucille Gladu. George is descended via George (1822) and Jack Ram Kipling (1788) from John Kipling and one of his Native American wives. John was employed by the Hudson s Bay Company from 1766 to 1794 (see The Kiplings of Hudson s Bay ). Also in Browning was Isabelle Kipling, 63, a widow and also a Cree. She was William P Kipling s mother. By 1930, she was divorced from his father. They had married around 1895 when she was 15.
Nebraska In Benton were farming brothers Clarence (39) and Chester (51) Kipling, with their mother Anna (69). They were the sons and widow of Schulyer Kipling, who was in turn the son of Thomas and Caroline Kipling. Thomas had been born in New York State around 1839. Thomas was the son of David Kipling of the Staindrop Kiplings. Chester died in 1965 and Clarence in 1974, as far as is known without issue. Their brother Claude, a carpenter, and wife Annie were in Omaha. Their two sons David and Kenneth were both in the military. Claude died in 1972, Kenneth in 1985 (in Washington State) and David in 1993. Kenneth is interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. (DCWC means DAMAGE CONTROLMAN (CARPENTER) CHIEF PETTY OFFICER). Fourth brother Boone, a switchman, his wife Ruth and son Thomas R Kipling were also living in Omaha. Boone died in 1960. Thomas served in the marines from 1945, becoming a Master Sergeant and retiring first to Omaha and then the Alabama. Thomas married Selma Hyman in 1949 in and a son Thomas R Kipling jnr was born in Texas in 1951. Thomas jnr in turn had a son Thomas R Kipling III around 1982 who married Kristen King in Galveston in 2007. In Auburn, was janitor Alva Jasper Kipling (38), his wife Nevada and children Fenton, Jinnie and Connie. He was the son of Jasper Kipling, brother of Schulyer. Alva died in 1975 and Fenton in 1990. Fenton s only child was a daughter, Linda. Also in Auburn was Alva s brother Cleo Kipling, a barber, wife Dorothy and children Margery and Leonard. Cleo died in 1947 and Leonard in 1972. And also Earl Kipling (18), son of the late Earl (d1929) another brother of Alva, living with his mother Stella and her new husband.
New Jersey In Elizabeth, is found detective agency guard Arthur Kipling (58), wife Ada and daughter Mildred (32). Arthur Dean Kipling was born in Roselle, New Jersey in 1881. His WW2 draft card can be seen below. He died in 1966 and Mildred, unmarried, in 2003. Arthur was the son of Francis J Kipling, a jeweller. Francis was the son of Richard A Kipling of the Dean group and so was a brother of Lydia Kipling of New York (see below). New York Adelina Kipling, and her sister Florence Westin, of Great Neck, Long Island are daughters of John Helmer Kipling of the Newhouses group. She was born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1885. The family emigrated to the US in 1894. In White Plains is Lydia Kipling. She was born in New Jersey in 1877, the daughter of Richard A Kipling. He is of the Dean group. In Rochester we find Ernest Kipling (b 1887, England), wife Ada, daughter Elsie [and brother William b 1894]. Ernest and William are sons of Robert Kipling, who was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of Philip Kipling [of Bradford] of the Staindrop group. Also in Rochester is Jerome Kipling, b NY 1902, a department store manager. In the 1920 census, he is in Davenport, Iowa and gives [his] mother tongue as Yiddish and his father as having been born in Russia. It appears likely that the family name was anglicised to Kipling on immigration. In Kings, we find department store night watchman John Kipling, born in South Carolina in 1902. He is classified as a negro. I can find no other records for him and wonder if he simply chose to use the Kipling name.
In Richmond, Staten Island, was living Harriet Kipling, widow of Alfred Kipling. Their son Alfred R Kipling died in World War 1. Alfred sen. was a son of Richard Kipling (wife Elizabeth), who was a waiter living on Broadway in 1863. Richard, a barman, and Elizabeth came to the USA in 1859 on board the Switzerland. Richard is recorded as a barman (b Holborn, London age 25) in the 1851 English census, and married Elizabeth Hague in London in 1856. His marriage certificate shows him as the son of a John Kipling, carpenter, who I have not yet been able to identify. North Dakota In Rolette County, we find road-grader Alex Keplin and his family. He was the son of Joseph and Margaret Keplin/Kipling, of the Hudson s Bay Kipling (q.v.). Draft card 1917 Nearby was living younger brother Alfred and mother Margaret. And also brothers John and Joseph and their families. WW2 Draft card
Ohio There are four Kipling entries in OH, three in the Cleveland area and one in Dayton, although recently resident in Cleveland. Thomas (29), a wholesale (hardware?) stockman of Lakewood, wife Ruth, is recorded as being aged 29 and born in Illinois. In fact, from his marriage record (below) we can see that he is actually 49 and was born in England, the son of Harry Kipling and Annie Beresford (UK record suggests Bailey, however). The marriage record below shows that Ruth was his second wife. The 1930 census records that Thomas arrived in the USA in 1920, with wife Minnie and children Harry and Constance. They travelled on the Carmania. This fits with the 1940 census, which tells us that the second OH Kipling family is headed by Harry, a hardware salesman (wife Mildred), born in England. His marriage record tells us that was the son of Thomas and Minnie Kipling (nee Whitely). Back in the UK, we can trace Thomas to the Notts group of Kiplings, where in the 1911 census he was a warehouseman in Sheffield. Vernice (22), a maid was born in OH. The 1930 census shows her as the daughter of Abraham and Martha Kipling. Abraham was born around 1883 in Colchester, Illinois, one of the sons of Thomas Kipling and Mary Jane Harrop. Thomas was one of four brothers (the others being Francis, William and Septimus) who emigrated to the USA in 1852. They were from a Durham coal and lead mining background (and mined coal in Illinois, too, see above) which traces back to the Brough group. In Dayton, Alfred Kipling (7) is the son of Martha Kershaw, who was the remarried widow of Abraham Kipling, above. So Alfred is also Brough. In Grand Rapids was farmer John Kippling with wife Imo, sons Cecil, Robert, Ferris and Richard and daughter Glena. His name was actually John Jackson Kepling. He was born in Ohio March 1872 (and died in 1965). He had married Imo Thatcher in 1913.
His parents name was probably Caplinger. 3 He probably anglicised his own name sometime before his marriage and thereafter referred to his parents by that name too. Nearby was 23-year old Jay Keppling, a farm hand, probably a son of the above. Oklahoma In Oklahoma city was Dan M Kipling (30), hosiery company salesman, wife Evelyn and son Peter. Dan had been born in Nebraska but I can find no other records for the family. Oregon In Wingville were widow Lulu Myrtle Kipling (67) and her daughter Mildred Kipling (45). Nearby were farmer Emil Law Kipling (42) and his wife Dorothy. Emil and Mildred had both been born in Colorado, children of Lulu and Sherman (or Herman) Charles Kipling. 3 His mother s first name was given as Ellen in his social security application.
Sherman had been born in Valpariso, Indiana, the son of William Kipling, in turn a son of David Kipling of Sodus Ridge NY, of the Staindrop Kiplings (see above). Emil served in the Navy in WW2 and died in 1984: Mildred died in 1970 and Dorothy in 1985. Haines School c1912: Emil first right;, Mildred second left The sad news of the passing of one of Haines well known farmers, Sherman Kipling, reached the city Friday, death occurring at the farm home south of town that morning. He had been ill for some time and the end was not unexpected. He recently was brought back from the sanitarium at Hot Lake. Sherman Charles Kipling was born Sept. 22, 1869, near Valparaiso, Ind., and died Sept. 28, 1928. He came from Denver Colo., to Haines 18 years ago. He married Lula M. Barker of Holyoke, Colo., April 30, 1892. He leaves besides his wife, one son Emil and one daughter Mildred, a sister Mrs. Alice Black of Colorado Springs, Colo., and a brother, John Bradley of Holyoke, Colo., who were with him at time of death. Funeral was conducted at the Methodist church by Miss Josie Blokland at two o clock Sunday afternoon, which was attended by a host of friends who mourn the passing of so good a citizen. OregonTrailWeekly Saturday, October 6, 1928 Pennsylvania There were four Kipling families in PA. Three were in the Johnstown area: young childless couples Joseph/Laura and Kenneth/Frances (both men worked in the steel industry) and widow Ann with son John, aged 15. The fourth was another young couple, Joseph and his wife Jean in Towanda, in the north west of the state. Joseph, Kenneth and John in Johnstown were all children of Ann and her late husband Joseph. Joseph sen. was been born in England in 1879 and been brought to the US a year later by his parents, William and Sarah Kipling. William had been a coal miner at Counden in County Durham and arrived in the US aboard the SS Kansas in 1887, Sarah arrived the following year aboard the Hibernian with their four children, including Joseph sen. William
was one of the Brough Kiplings and almost certainly mined coal in PA, although had died by the time of the 1900 census 4, which found Joseph sen. mining coal at Paint near Johnstown. The Towanda Joseph appears to be the son, b1919, of Joseph Augustus Kipling, an immigrant from Austria. I have been unable to trace him back past the 1930 census. Possibly this is another case of the family name being anglicised to Kipling. There was also widowed teacher Mary Kippling, living with her widowed mother at Monroe, Bradford. I have not been able to trace her history. Tennessee In Nashville, is Betty Kipling aged 60, liquor store owner and aunt of Rhoda Francis (54) who is a clerk in the store. Betty was born in Kentucky. I have not yet been able to trace her any further. Washington Oliver Kipling of Seattle was the son of Carlton M S Kipling of Fresno (see California above). He and two of his sons can be found in the 1958 Seattle City directory The same year, Rudyard Lee was apparently married by his father (who was a religious minister) with one of his brothers as a witness 4 The 1890 US census records were destroyed.
Rudyard was living in Issaquah, Washington in 1994. Donovan Scott Kipling was also married by his father in 1960 and is also recorded as marrying in Nevada in 1972, and Washington in 1991, and possibly also in Oregon in 1985. He died in 1997. Third son Oliver C Kipling married in 1963. A son, Oliver D was born in 1965 and as of 2002 was still in the phone book for Bellingham, Washington.